The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services) (Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2015

Transitional provision relating to LPS schemes and pilot schemes in respect of which legal proceedings have commenced before 1st March 2015

10.—(1) Paragraph (2) applies as regards any dispute which relates to a matter arising before 1st March 2015 under—

(a) an LPS scheme; or

(b) a pilot scheme within the meaning given in section 134(2) of the National Health Service Act 2006(1) (pilot schemes),

which is not an NHS contract.

(2) If legal proceedings relating to the dispute have commenced before 1st March 2015—

(a) regulation 103(6)(a) of the principal Regulations (LPS schemes: health service body status);

(b) regulation 109(4)(a) of the principal Regulations (LPS pilot schemes: health service body status); and

(c) paragraph 21(1) of Schedule 7 to the principal Regulations (mandatory terms for LPS schemes – dispute resolution: non-NHS contracts),

have affect in relation to that dispute as if the amendments made by regulations 4, 5(a) and 9 had not come into force.

(1)

Section 134(2) has been amended by the Health Act 2009 (c. 21), Schedule 1, paragraph 8, and by the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), Schedule 4, paragraph 71(3).